[CentOS] Problems with 2.3TB disk

[Dan Pritts]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Shawn Everett wrote:
> I took your advice.  I upgraded to CentOS 4.4 and then further upgraded the 
> kernel to the official 2.6.18 kernel.


> Try as I might, I have not yet been able to reproduce the problems that 
> caused me stress.  I can create multi GB files without a problem.  I can 
> move files into and out of the partition without an error.  I'm taking 
> this as a good sign.  I'm also not seeing any disk access errors in dmesg!

I built an early RHEL 4 (maybe U1, maybe the original release) with a ~12TB 
raid system.  Things were very, very sad with the rhel kernel, but updating
to the then-current kernel made things much, much better.

I also, if i recall correctly, needed to get the most recent XFS tools, but 
I had to do that anyway since redhat doesn't support XFS.

danno
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